IX. Russian Traditions.

1. People in Russia have their own special traditions, such as Cupala’s Night, Maslenitsa.

2. I‘d like to speak about Maslenitsa.

3. It is a holiday which lasts for a week, to say “good buy” to winter.

4. People celebrate it at the end of February or at the beginning of March. During this week people celebrate the end of winter and the beginning of spring.

5. People usually cook pancakes during “maslenitsa week”, invite their friends, their nearest and dearest to see each other and eat pancakes with sour cream, honey.

6. On Sunday people had fires, burn straw scarecrows of winter, they sing songs and dance.

7. Though different countries have different traditions people all over the world know some of them.

8. They are Easter, Christmas and New Year.

X. Countries and Continents

1. The planet we live on is the Earth.

2. The Earth is round.

3. From the space you’ll be able to see land, seas, oceans, continents and even countries on it.

4. There are 4 oceans on the Earth: the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, The Arctic Ocean and the Indian Ocean.

5. Oceans and seas wash ad separate continents from each other.

6. The continents are: Europe and Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Antarctic.

7. The continents are very large.

8. There are usually many countries on the continents, but there are only one country in Australia and it has the same name as the continent.

9. Let’s name some countries from each continent: Russia, Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and Italy are in Europe.

10. China, India, Vietnam are in Asia.

11. Canada and the United States are on North America.

12. Egypt is am African country.

13. The largest country in the world is Russia.

14. The smallest country is Vatican.

15. People of different nationalities live in the countries.

16. They speak different languages.

17. Each country has its national flag, anthem and its own customs and traditions.

XI. English-speaking Countries

1. I think English is the most popular language nowadays.

2. People speak English all over the world.

3. In Russia and France, in Germany and Italy, in Spain and Egypt people learn English as a foreign language.

4. English has become the international language in the 20^th century.

5. People will understand you practically everywhere if you speak English.

6. In most of the countries people speak English ad their native language of course.

7. People use English as the native language in Great Britain, the USA Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

8. These are English-speaking countries.

9. In all these countries people speak English but it is a little different in each of these countries.

10. People speak American English in the USA and British English in Great Britain.

11. Different words often name the same things.

12. People live in flats in England but they live in apartments in America.

13. They eat cookies and candies in the USA, but biscuits and sweets in Great Britain.

14. Children go to school in the fall in America but in autumn in England.

15. That’s very interesting indeed.

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